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Deepayan Sengupta

There was once a time when I thought Scarface was the best movie ever made, and Home Improvement was appointment television for me. While I still have a soft spot for both, those days of naivete are long behind me, as I’ve subsequently managed to broaden my horizons. Ambition is the most important part of a movie for me; if it tries to do something unique, tell a well-worn story in a different way, or take on large themes in a honest manner, I can forgive many flaws. If there’s one movie fact I’ve learnt after all these years, it’s that Employee of The Month is to Office Space what fast food is to fresh fruit.

The new show from USA Network, which reunites co-creator Carlton Cuse with lead Josh Holloway after the two worked together on Lost, shows little promise, as its hamstrung by generic plotlines and poorly developed characters.

Here are the major film and television trailers that were released this week.
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, the newest documentary from filmmaker Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the…

The presence of several storylines causes some to be handled poorly and not given the time they warrant, but the character motivations of two of Supergirl's key antagonists are further fleshed out, leading to potentially exciting…

While the show presents some very interesting ideas over the course of its season, it fails to properly follow through or develop several of them, leading to the sum of the series adding up to less than a whole and leaving Flesh and Bone…

The release of the first season of Jessica Jones on Netflix has been met with acclaim from numerous sources, raising the excitement level of fans in the process in the remaining series that will be released as part of the Netflix-Marvel…

The announcement that Netflix and Marvel would be partnering together for a series of shows was met with excitement by many fans of the Marvel comic books, particularly when the central characters of each series were announced. One…

The release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens later this month will mark the newest entry in one of the most popular science fiction movie franchises to date, the first new addition to the series in a decade. To commemorate the new film,…

The first season of Amazon Prime's newest series, adapted from the Philip K. Dick novel with which it shares its title, presents a lot of fascinating ideas, and is worth a watch despite some missteps in characterisation.

While the chronological year is drawing to a close, the year in television is far from over, as a number of shows have made their debut over the past few weeks, with more set to join them. One of the shows set to make its series…

The announcement of Creed, filmmaker Ryan Coogler's follow-up to Fruitvale Station that would be set in the Rocky universe and focus on Apollo Creed's son, led many pop culture enthusiasts to note that a biopic of the band Creed would…

While Marvel has expanded their television universe considerably this year, with Daredevil and Jessica Jones joining Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter, DC's television universe has been growing steadily as well, with each installment…

Major's real plan is revealed as Blaine faces threats from several sources while working to stay ahead of new threats in an entertaining pair of episodes that bring into sharper focus the various forces converging on Liv and her allies.

Adapt this is a column that makes the case for a big or small screen adaptation of a book or graphic novel.
The book: Broken Monsters, written by Lauren Beukes, published in 2014
Premise: In modern-day Detroit, amidst economic…